Process of making stock food from cactus.



' T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JonN H. Gnazmn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Making Stock Food from Cactus; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a process for its object to provide a stock food from the cactus plant, which heretofore has had no commercial value. A

Thc leaves of the ca tus plant,especiall v that species connnonly known as l g l the prickly pear when reduced to particles,

ma y be used as a base for a stock food. preparing the cactus for my process, I

them through a cutting machine, which cuts 5 the leaves into pieces ranging from onefourth inch to one and one-fourth inches square. I then mix with the cactus a suit able quantity of one or more fattening elements, such for example as ground corn, dipped alfalfa, linseed meal, cottonseed meal, linseed, ct'ittonseed, or chopped corn stalks; Any one of these substances alone may be used, or mixtures of any two or more of them; the proportion of themixture being usually about four hundred pounds of flattening ingredient to two thousand pounds of cactus, although it is readily apparent that to enrich the food the quantity of fattening element may be increased. After the ingredients have been cut and chopped, as mentioned, they are placed in a cooker, of any suitable type, such as an or- I Patented. Mar. 14, 1911.

acwapuroy w MW Not to be taken UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

I 7 JOHN H. GLAZIER, or KANSAS CITY, nlssounx."

rnocnss or MAXI-N6: srocx roe/n rnom one-res. 987,062, spceiflcation ot Letters Patent. K0 Drawing.

Application filed February 4, 1910. Serial Ho. 541,965.

process, I provide a separatejuice receptacle into which the free juice may pass from the cooker, so that only a sufficient: amount of liquid retained in the cooker to moisten the matter during the cooking process. The drain pipe is preferably located in the bottom of the cooker and may be provided with a. cock, so that the escape of steam may be controlled.

A suitable device for carrying out the ,above process may comprise an ordinary boiler having a dram pipe opening there- 'making stock food from *actus. and has for from, and a bucket or receptacle for receiving the juice from the drain pipe.

The material will become cooked in from In; to (3-0 hours, according to the temperature in the cooker and the properties of the material, after which it should be permitted to cool before being exposed to the air; After the mass has cooked and as soon as it 1 is cool. a part of the juice from the recepsever the leaves from the trunk and ruui tacle is poured over it, so thatthe nutriment in the u ce will be re-lncorporated in the product As some. species of cactus are made up of from sixty to seventy per cent.

water, it is apparent that to return all of this liquid to the cooked mass would make the mass so moist that it could not be conveniently handled or shipped. For this reason, but a part of the liquid is returned to the food, and the balance drawn off to be reduced to other uses. This food may be fed to the stock in-this wet state; or, it ma be conveyed to a drying room. and dried by any desired process or method, asuitable drying agent. such as steam or hot air beingemployed, if desired. In some cases, such as when it is desired to ship the food considerable distances, it may be advisable to pulverize the product after drying, so that it may be sealed in packages, or sewed in sacks, the pulverizing also serving to reduce any cactus spines that may not have been dissolved in the cooking process.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The process of making a steer food, consisting in reducing cactus to particles,

draining ofl' juice from the solid matter,

cooking the solid matter, cooling the mass, and restoring to the mass the uncooked juice previous y drained therefrom, substantially as described. r

2. The process of making a stock food, vconsisting in reducing cactus to particles, draining off juice from the solid matter, cooking the solid matter, cooling the solid 5 matter, restoring to the solid matter the juice previously drained therefrom, and drying the mass, substantially as described.

3. The process of making a stock food, consisting of reducing cactus to particles, .0 draining ofi juice therefrom, adding a fattening ingredientilcooking the mixture, cooling and adding t e drained off cactus juice and drying same; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. JOHN H. GLAZIER.

Witnesses:

MYRTLE M. JACKSON, K. W. Imsomm.

lupin of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

